What is "unshackle"

Usage examples of "unshackle".

The 2d Sponger and 2d Loader haul taut side-tackles and choke luffs, or, if rolling deep, hitch the falls round the straps of the blocks, and then unshackle the old breeching and shackle the new, which is to be brought to the gun by the 2d Captain.

Sponger and 2d Loader, after securing the side-tackle falls, will assist to load the gun, and the additional men will assist in unshackling the old and shackling the new breeching, but one of these will do all the duties just assigned to the 1st Captain, so as not to interfere with his ordinary duties in loading.

Worse, there would be places in the mountains where I would have to unshackle the wagons, move them one at a time to a more open place go back for each wagon left behind, bring it up-a process that would take twice as long for a three-wagon train as for a two-wagon one, and would happen oftener, even much oftener, with three wagons than with two.

Worse, there would be places in the mountains where I would have to unshackle the wagons, move them one at a time to a more open place— go back for each wagon left behind, bring it up—a process that would take twice as long for a three-wagon train as for a two-wagon one, and would happen oftener, even much oftener, with three wagons than with two.

The ritual personages unshackled it from the eye, hauled it in, and carried thick coils of it away eastward to the accompaniment of panpipes and gongs.

I had swallowed one of the invisibility spheres just before the warrior unshackled me, and I knew that it would take about an hour for it to effect perfect invisibility.

I saved your political career by unshackling you from my disgrace, and all I asked in return was that you honor my request for solitude.

What more can you gain by unshackling this monstrous power upon mankind?

Already sobbing before she knew she'd even begun, she simply let herself go, tears a sacrament, purifying the mind, unshackling the rigidities of the flesh, life's salt offering to life.

Then he and Lily were unshackling the girls and herding them out, telling them to hurry.

For decades, he had been ever on the move, running from place to place, his eyes steadfastly on the ultimate prize: the unshackling of his people.

For decades, he had been ever on the move, running from place to place, his eyes steadfastly on the ultimate prize the unshackling of his people.

Worse, there would be places in the mountains where I would have to unshackle the wagons, move them one at a time to a more open place- go back for each wagon left behind, bring it up-a process that would take twice as long for a three-wagon train as for a two-wagon one, and would happen oftener, even much oftener, with three wagons than with two.

Worse, there would be places in the mountains where I would have to unshackle the wagons, move them one at 'a time to a more open place-go back for each wagon left behind, bring it up-a process that would take twice as long for a' three-wagon train as for a two-wagon one, and would happen oftener, even much oftener, with three wagons than with two.